Good Old Games interview on GameZone talks with GOG.com's Marcin Iwinski about this service that offers older games freed of DRM and updated to run on modern systems. They discuss the site's hoax shutdown (which he calls a "game" rather than a "joke" in a bit of world-class hair splitting), how their re-launch has gone, what the future holds, and more. The interviewer also asks about the possibility that Sam & Max will join their catalog, and was told they are working on it. This conversation was conducted prior to Iwinski's resignation from CD Projekt, so that topic goes unaddressed.

Game eh? They are still not taking the apology very seriously (that was already obvious from the whole fake monk costume videos). Basically they don't think it was any big thing if it was a "game"

The problem is, if this is their normal attitude towards users (which all evidence seems to point to), that doesn't make me feel confidant about buying from them. If the whole shut down was a one time thing thats one thing, if its just a symptom of a habitual arrogance and non caring attitude towards users thats quite another.

Kajetan wrote on Oct 11, 2010, 02:10:Other games like "Arx Fatalis" got patches from the devs especially for GOG.com.

Really? What was wrong with it?

I installed Arx Fatalis on both my XP and Vista machine a couple years ago and the only problem was a few textures that were incompatible with modern Nvidia cards somehow. A quick Google turned up a post on Jowood's official Arx forum where some guy zipped up edited versions of the texture files that worked on nvidia cards. This was back in 07, maybe 08.

eRe4s3r wrote on Oct 10, 2010, 15:38:Yeah but thats not compatible then now is it?

It is. The game is fully playable.

If i have to use the same workarounds i have to use when i use the version i already had then whats the point of GoG.

The point is being able to buy these old games and being sure, they work on modern OS. GOG.com fixed games, which were NOT working with Vista/W7 at all, like "Knights & Merchants". Other games like "Arx Fatalis" got patches from the devs especially for GOG.com. As for others like "Messiah" or "Gorky17", they promised fixes in the future.

But besides that ... i am still waiting for the pony they promised me after shuttting down the service for a cheap marketing ploy.

CJ_Parker wrote on Oct 10, 2010, 18:20:The point is to fill the pockets of people who are laughing their ass off at all the idiots who are buying a game they already own for the second or in some cases of extreme idiocy umpteenth time.

I mostly use the service for games I never got around to buying back in the day, but there is some attraction in getting a completely patched and pre-tweaked version of the game with no DRM or disc check and often a soundtrack. I wouldn't spend a ton of money on them, but for $5 or so it is attractive, and you support them getting more games you might not own.

That said I only bought a few I already own... the Tex Murphy games being the ones that jump out at me right now, as they are a bitch to setup and disc-swap in DosBox.

I wish they'd get a hold of Lands of Lore 3. I always wanted to play the 3rd one but can't get it working on any of my desktops. Best I've done is get it working on a very very old win2K machine but it crashes to desktop every 10-20 minutes.